Recipe 31: Farmhouse Scramble (version 1)
Recipe 32: Cottage Pie
Recipe 33: Potato and Cheese Bake
Recipe 34: Boeuf Bourguignon 1940s Rations Style
Recipe 35: Potato Floddies
Recipe 36: Bread and Apple Pudding
Recipe 37: Danish Apple Pudding
Recipe 38: Vegetable Stew
Recipe 39: Wartime Welsh Cakes
Recipe 40: Cold meat pasties
Recipe 41: Quick chocolate icing
Recipe 42: Potato Rarebit
Recipe 43: Mock Cream Recipe 2
Recipe 44: No Cook Chocolate Cake
Recipe 45: Mince Slices
Recipe 46: Marmite Mushrooms (a modern creation?)
Recipe 47: Eggless Fruit Cake
Recipe 48: Potato and Carrot Pancakes
Recipe 49: Potato and Lentil Curry
Recipe 50: Mock Goose
Recipe 51: Wartime Eggless Christmas Cake
Recipe 52: Vegetable and Oatmeal Goulash
Recipe 53: Irish Soda-Bread
Recipe 54: Eggless Pancakes
Recipe 55: Carrot Cookies
Recipe 56: Herby Bread
Recipe 57: Poor Knight’s Fritters
Recipe 58: Eggless Mayonnaise
Recipe 59: Split pea soup
Recipe 60: Potato Fingers
Being it’s the Holiday Season, I’ll steal 2 more from Carolyn :
Recipe 102: Eggless christmas pudding
Recipe 157: Ministry of Food Christmas Cake
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Thankls, Ian!
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Ooh, more yumminess! Going to have to bookmark this one, GP!
I hope your New Year is off to a lovely start! 🙂
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Yes, I must admit, it is going smoothly (except for there is still not enough hours in the day!!)
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Reblogged this on Janet's Thread 2.
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Thank you, Janet!!
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I wish you well in this new year. You have been very kind to follow my blog, and to like my articles. I am thankful for having you as such a good friend.
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The same to you, my friend.
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Thanks for your kindness, and for being such a wonderful person that you are.
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Much appreciated.
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It is amazing what one can make from what is available to eat. The original Iron Chefs!
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haha, yes they were. I hadn’t thought of that!
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Well it isn’t wartime from many years ago, but I still love vegetable stew and I make a fat free version all the time. I never tire of it. 🙂 Just stopped by to wish you and yous a very Merry Christmas. ❤
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Thank you very much, Elizabeth!! I wish you and yours the very same.
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Wonderful, G.P. Thanks!
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Hope you have fun with this, Brad!
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These are fantastic. My Nana used to cook parsnips until they were soft and then flavor the puree with banana extract to make a pudding of sorts. Merry Christmas, GP.
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That sounds excellent!
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Lost of interesting varieties here, GP Cox! I found the trick on the Irish soda bread, a bread I bake quite often, most interesting. By adding some vinegar to fresh milk, you can make a fake buttermilk! 🙂
Sending yo sunny greetings from us all across the pond,
Dina x
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Dina,
Thanks for the sun, we’re a bit overcast today, but no complaints, the temperature has been decent. I’m very happy you found some recipes to interest you. Let me know how things turn out!!
GP Cox
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Will do! 😊
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Thanks!
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Reblogged this on depolreablesunite.
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My readers had fun with this post – I hope yours do the same.
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Reblogged this on quirkywritingcorner and commented:
Now you can have fun with some “new” recipes for your holiday cooking. I haven’t decided which one I’ll try but I’m thinking about the Potato and Cheese Bake.
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Good choice – have fun!!
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I liked that one too! 🙂
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A beautiful post GP ,I love the recipes too. 😊
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Thanks! I hope you find something to your liking!
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The deserts are pretty tempting! Are there many things as good as thinly sliced and fried Spam on white bread with mayo? 😊
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Never had it that way – I’ll give it a try!
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🙂
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Somehow, I love SPAM, and have since childhood. Hate that the word has been misused to the blog space. In that vein, as yours is a most consequential blog, I thank you for coming by mine. We reader’s can’t imagine how you manage your time, to read and react to the many comments you get, while delivering such good content. You honor who deserve our love and respect.
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I try my best to get to everyone. I’ve learned to read fast, keep my comments as short as possible and the rest id LUCK!!
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PS. There are a few readers here that like Spam as well. There has to be even more or it wouldn’t still be on the shelves for sale, eh?
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The food rationing in Great Britain was nothing but horrendous. I cannot recall eating butter until I came to Australia in April 1951, The rationing in England Scotland Ireland and waoes was still going when we left.
During the war our sweets ( candy ) ration was 2 oz a month , Yep 2 TWO ounces per child per month. What’s more there wasn’t much to buy in any case. I recall that parents were advised , through the radio doctors at that time, to only buy chewing gum for the childrens sweet (candy ) ration as they felt with the absence of meat the childrens jaws would not develop properly and function proper;y if or when the war finished and things got back to normal. So My monthlt sweet (candy) allowance was 2 oz of Wrigleys Chewing gum, not the sticks like the Americans had but sugar coated tablets, I think there was four to a pack, may have been 5, each weighing 1 oz so 2 packets a month.
And we’d have to make it last, It wasn’t unusual for children to stick it on the bedpost overnight and resume the next day.
After the war some clown put that experience to music and it reached the top 10 in the USA billboard in 1961
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I remember that song, it wasn’t something I did though, as we did not have rationing after the war. The gum you had sounds like the fore-runner of Chiclets gum, but they weren’t Wrigley’s. I wasn’t allowed to have candy, had no idea what it tasted like until my cousin took me to the corner candy store – I was ruined for life and my weight proves it!! 🙂
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Wrigleys in England only produced the sugar coated chewing gum tablets; I didn’t know there was any other type until 1944,
My father brother and I were on a train from Crewe to London must have been October November 1944 and there were many American soldiers GI’s I suppose they were and they were friendly young men and they gave my brother and me some American chewing gum and they were in strips not sugar coated and we were not sure what to do with them until the soldiers told us ‘You Chew it’, it was very exciting,
I’ve often wondered since, if those young men ever made it home. They were obviously heading down to the south to cross the Channel for the invasion going on in Europe
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Thank you for telling that story, Beari! A home front eye witness account during the invansion – outstanding!
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There’s probably not many left who were fortunate to go through and live to tell the story GP, , another 10 or 20 years and we’ll all be gone.
I really should have written about it as my children asked me to do many years ago. Didn’t seem that important at the time, just seemed attention seeking.
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Try recording your story, Beari, with our school systems falling behind, it’s up to us to preserve history.
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I’ve made many starts GP but then think why bother; my children are not the least bit interested, so what could possibly interest strangers.
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My father, Smitty, thought no one would be interested in what he said back then and wouldn’t agree to try and have his letters published – look what it turned out to be!! They may not be asking you now what happened, but later on ….who knows.
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My age, but not my memories reach back to that time, G. I am pretty sure that my mother was cooking many of the same dishes a few years later, which I do remember. –Curt
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I remember my mom cooking some myself, but that was in the 50’s – 60’s. Thanks for stopping by, Curt.
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Mainly it was that way for me as well, G. But there are some things, like German Chocolate Cakes that are forever memories. 🙂
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Ummmmmmm, now my mouth is drooling!
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Making do on very little became a way of life and a matter of pride among many housewives. It was impressed upon me as a child, that ‘Making do and mending’ was a virtue to be cultivated. It’s a habit I still find nearly impossible to disregard.
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I can still hear my parents on being frugal. Like you said, it’s hard to break the habit.
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In the fifties, my Grandmother still cooked as if WW II rationing was still in effect…or the depression. She mixed her hamburger meat with either oatmeal or crushed up crackers, chopped up wild onions and seasoned with something that must have been a secret. I’ve never been able to recreate them. She called them Victory Burgers…maybe it was the lard she fried them in. I could be on to something.
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Believe it or not, lard does wonders in baking too.
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Biscuits
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YUP
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That is a fabulous line-up. Cannot wait to browse them. Cheers!
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Have fun with them!!
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Surely!
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Reblogged this on New Mexicans in WWII and Korea.
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Thank you. I hope your readers enjoy it as much as mine have. You could publish another cookbook from these!!
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I can make those in a second for you, but also spaghetti and meatballs. That is as far as my cooking skills go.
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Aw, the Potato Cheese Bake should be simple enough. Make a batch as a Christmas side dish!!
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If it is an order I will, if is not I won´t.
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Not an order, Charly. Enjoy the holidays!!
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You to
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Will try.
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This and the other wartime recipes post I copied to Facebook. They are an iunteresting look at the complications of household management in times of severe national emergency. We often forget that it wasn’t a given that we were winning that war till several months into it, and people at home had the further stress of knowing people on their blocks who were in that war as combatants, POWs, or casualties, leaving behind family who spent plenty of prayers on their servicemen.
One of my moither’s friends was a military nurse who served in the African portion of the war. These women tend not to get their due but frequently were the last friendly, comforting faces the mortally wounded saw. Not all American women were safe in North America.
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Very good points, Doug. I hope some of the readers pick up on it and start a discussion!!
Give a scritch to my boys for me, eh?!!
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That I will! (They eat scritching up!).
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What an amazing list and her site is so unique with these recipes! Who knew there was such a thing as uncooked chocolate cake?! Thanks for sharing this.
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My pleasure. With all that Carolyn supplied us, we should find something we like, eh?!
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I stayed awake way too long last night reading the recipes. Thanks for sharing the flavors of era and how our parents and grandparents made the best of what they had. Reblogged it.
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My pleasure. My Mom made similar meals and I’m eager to try more myself!!
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Reblogged this on Old Things R New and commented:
I meant to reblog this Friday morning. It took me all day to finally realize today is Friday! I hope our readers enjoy this peek into the past as much as I did.
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I appreciate you sharing these recipes. I hope your readers have fun with it.
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Bread and apple pudding…. I can’t stop my mouth from watering.
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Glad to hear it!!
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Some excellent recipes to look over. I like the Christmas cake. May even try it.
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Hope you do, Ann and please tell me how it went!! bon appétit
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🙂 🙂
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As I’ve commented in a similar vein previously – I puzzle over what is different between now and then. These recipes are starchy and caloric – yet few people then were fat. I agree with the theory posited occasionally at the blog DisaffectedMusings.com that a prime cause in the current American preference for SUVs and pickup trucks is we as a nation have gotten so fat.
PackardMan’s Primary Care Physician: “You need to drop 40 pounds and get in shape!”
PackardMan to PCP: “I am in shape! Round is a shape!”
🙂
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They, IMO, were far busier than we are and worked off the calories. They didn’t sit at a computer to make a living nor did they call up the local fast-food joint for dinner. I’m guilty of being round myself, but I refuse to get an SUV. I don’t haul things around, I don’t have any kids, heck I don’t even work any more – SO, no need for me to be one of the conforming crowd.
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A funeral procession fit for an American hero traveled through the streets of San Diego Thursday in honor of the late Ray Chavez, who was the oldest veteran survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor. https://www.10news.com/news/military/ray-chavez-oldest-survivor-of-pearl-harbor-attack-to-be-laid-to-rest
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I had chills when I saw the line of people there along the route to honor Mr. Chavez. The flag waving above the procession was amazing. Thank you.
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I had the exact same reaction.
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